Spark-arrester



(No Model.)

P. W. LEVERING.

SPARK ARRESTER. v No. 270,445. Patented Jan.9, 1883.

\/\/ITNEEEEE INVENTCDR UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

FRANKLIN W. LEVERING, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

.SPARK-ARRESTER.

{\PECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 270,445, dated January 9, 1883.

Application filed October 14, 1882. (No-model.) I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANKLIN W. LEVERING, ofthe city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Spark- Arresters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device to be applied to the outside of a passenger-car to intercept sparks, cinders, 850., and prevent the same entering the car; and it consists in a removable hinged screen, which is applied to the portion of the car-body between the windows.

In the further description of my invention which follows reference is made to the accompanying drawings, forminga part hereof, and in which- Figure I is a View in perspective of a part of a passenger-car provided with my improvement. Fig. II is an enlarged view of the inrention.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in both views.

A is the car-body, and B B are the windows. 0 is a screen, preferably of rectangular form, of wire-cloth surrounded by a wire frame. The screen 0 is connected to the car-body by means of hinges of such character as will admit of the screen being folded against the car-body when notin use or when the windows are Closed or entirely removed. When in use the screen is held as shownin Fig. I-that is to say, by means of a small brace-bar, a,the free end of which is hooked and united to an eye, I). In cars where the space between the windows is about double the width of the screen it can be placed in the center of the said space, so as to fold against the car-body without projecting in front of the glazed portion of the window; but ifthe space between the windows 

